Quotes About Politics

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.

Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.

The scene is France. The theater is the world.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

To understand the popes we must look at the princes.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. When

Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

When the party system regulates, argument addresses the deaf.

Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?

As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately

Planted firmly across the path of change, operating warily, shrewdly yet with passionate conviction in defence of the existing order, was a peer who was Chancellor of Oxford University for life, had twice held the India Office, twice the Foreign Office and was now Prime Minister for the third time. He was Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, ninth Earl and third Marquess of his line.

Rochester, at least among some segments of society, had become a more polite town, the Burned-over District, the region that surrounded it and that had been the scene of earlier revivals, continued to smolder with enthusiasms both religious and political.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.